http://www.clarionreview.org/2009/10/%e2%80%9cyellow-ants%e2%80%9d-fundamentalists-and-cowboys/ A JOURNAL FOR LIFE IN THE BODY Tue, 25 May 2010 20:59:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.clarionreview.org/2009/10/%e2%80%9cyellow-ants%e2%80%9d-fundamentalists-and-cowboys/comment-page-1/#comment-8 hubertus fremerey Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:51:26 +0000 http://www.clarionreview.org/blog/?p=189#comment-8 Excellent article ! We are always told how much superiour the Moors must have been providing us with Aristotelian scriptures in the High Middle Ages. But I always wondered how those Arabs, if the were that smart, got outsmarted by those poor Christians. Brague finally explains ! What he does not touch on explicitely is a difference of "questioning-culture" and "authority-culture" : In the Islamic world up to this day pupils and students are told "to follow the masters words". This is a constant complaint of all "Western" scientists teaching to "Oriental" audiences : The Orient lacks a culture of questioning that grew in the West from the 15th century, i.e. Renaissance. Excellent article ! We are always told how much superiour the Moors must have been providing us with Aristotelian scriptures in the High Middle Ages. But I always wondered how those Arabs, if the were that smart, got outsmarted by those poor Christians. Brague finally explains ! What he does not touch on explicitely is a difference of “questioning-culture” and “authority-culture” : In the Islamic world up to this day pupils and students are told “to follow the masters words”. This is a constant complaint of all “Western” scientists teaching to “Oriental” audiences : The Orient lacks a culture of questioning that grew in the West from the 15th century, i.e. Renaissance.

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